Democracy in America: HOW EQUALITY OF CONDITION CONTRIBUTES TO MAINTAIN GOOD MORALS IN AMERICA 11-4-2010 (Part 1)

 The marriage topic continues in HOW EQUALITY OF CONDITION CONTRIBUTES TO MAINTAIN GOOD MORALS IN AMERICA.

In a country in which a woman is always free to exercise her choice and where education has prepared her to choose rightly, public opinion is inexorable to her faults. The rigor of the Americans arises in part from this cause. They consider marriage as a covenant which is often onerous, but every condition of which the parties are strictly bound to fulfill because they knew all those conditions beforehand and were perfectly free not to have contracted them.

Does this still apply? Would I sound too much the crank for television for obscuring “all those conditions” of marriage? 

Television for too long made married life too simplistic. It made life too simplistic. Those decrying the divorce rate should think how to teach the conditions of the marriage contract, and their seriousness.

Once upon a time a girlfriend told me I wanted my cake and to eat it, too. I tried to guard against that thinking, ultimately without success. We Americans have always wanted our cake and to eat it, too, and about its cost the devil take the hindmost. You can have your cake and eat it, too – so long as it is done within the bounds of marriage.

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[Continued in Democracy in America: HOW EQUALITY OF CONDITION CONTRIBUTES TO MAINTAIN GOOD MORALS IN AMERICA 11-4-2010 (Part 2) sch 8/22/2023.]